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Black History Month 2025: Q&As with Black Picture Book Creators

By Iyana Jones | 02/11/2025 @ 03:00PM

In celebration of Black History Month, we spoke with seven children's authors about their books showcasing Black cultural and historical figures, and the importance of teaching young people about the full scope of American history.
Four Questions for Carolyn Mackler

By Martha Schulman | 02/11/2025 @ 03:00PM

PW spoke with Mackler about her new middle grade novel 'Right Back at You,' her own experience with bullying, and the difference between the present day and when she was in middle school.
Living in a Society: PW Talks with Olivia Waite

By Liz Scheier | 02/07/2025 @ 07:00PM

With ‘Murder by Memory,’ an author best known for queer historical romance launches a Golden Age–style mystery series in space.
Siren Song: PW Talks with Venessa Vida Kelley

By Liz Scheier | 02/07/2025 @ 07:00PM

The debut author of the novel ‘When the Tides Held the Moon’ discusses merpeople both imagined and real.
Shanghai Rhythm: PW Talks with Jennifer Haigh

by Sara Davis | 02/07/2025 @ 07:00PM

In Haigh’s novel ‘Rabbit Moon,’ a young American woman’s parents visit her in Shanghai, where she’s in a coma from a hit-and-run.
Imagining a Positive Future: PW Talks with David Sheff

By Henry Carrigan | 02/07/2025 @ 07:00PM

In 'Yoko: A Biography' (Simon & Schuster, Apr.), the bestselling author traces Yoko Ono’s artistic career and personal life with John Lennon and beyond.
Coyote Is Among Us: PW Talks with Julian Brave NoiseCat

By Nathalie op de Beeck | 02/07/2025 @ 07:00PM

We Survived the Night (Knopf, Oct.), the author’s nonfiction debut, blends family history, reportage, and Indigenous storytelling.
WI2025: Memory and Loss: PW Talks with Ocean Vuong

By Ed Nawotka | 02/07/2025 @ 07:00PM

In The Emperor of Gladness (Penguin Press, May), the sophomore novelist crafts a narrative that subverts traditional immigrant story arcs to explore deeper questions about human connection and survival.
Black Bookstore Power!: PW Talks with Char Adams

By Claire Kirch | 02/07/2025 @ 07:00PM

In Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore (Tiny Reparations, Nov.), journalist Adams unearths the history of Black bookselling in the U.S.
WI2025: Bookselling Is Resilient: PW Talks with Allison Hill

By Ed Nawotka | 02/07/2025 @ 07:00PM

The CEO of the American Booksellers Association says that booksellers will always be there for each other.
WI2025: Beyond (S)kin Deep: PW Talks with Ibi Zoboi

by Idris Grey | 02/07/2025 @ 07:00PM

The author’s debut YA fantasy novel, (S)kin (Versify, out now), written in verse, follows an undocumented Caribbean mother and daughter who work for pennies by day and shed their skin to feast on the life force of their enemies at night.
Catching a Buzz: PW Talks with Shawn Harris

By Nathalie op de Beeck | 02/06/2025 @ 03:00PM

The Caldecott Honor winner discusses interactive readings, the appeal of working in crayon, and his new picture book, Let's Be Bees (Neal Porter Books).
Four Questions for Katherine Paterson

By Erica Wetter | 02/04/2025 @ 03:00PM

Two-time winner of both the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award, Katherine Paterson is also a longtime member of the International Board on Books for Young People, and her latest book is a spirited illustrated biography of the organization’s founder, Jella Lepman.
Messy Love: PW Talks with Ashley Herring Blake

by Isabel Montero | 01/31/2025 @ 07:00PM

In the romance novelist’s ‘Dream On, Ramona Riley’ (Berkley, May), an aspiring costume designer agrees to give a movie star a crash course in normalcy to help her prepare for a part.
Criticism Isn’t Art: PW Talks with Andrea Long Chu

by Zachary Fletcher | 01/31/2025 @ 07:00PM

In ‘Authority: Essays’ (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Apr.), the Pulitzer Prize–winning book and TV critic reflects on the function of criticism.
Backing Down on Book Blurbs: PW Talks with Sean Manning

By John Maher | 01/31/2025 @ 07:00PM

Last week, Manning announced a change to the blurbing practice at S&S, no longer requiring authors to round up their own. “I have always found this so weird,” he said. We wanted to know more.
Q & A with Debbie Levy

By Amy E. Magnus | 01/27/2025 @ 09:00AM

With the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Monkey Trial right coming up in July, we spoke with Levy about her new nonfiction book for young readers, 'A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Monkey Trial, the Original Fight over Science in Schools.'
Beyond the Book: Claribel A. Ortega and Oz Rodriguez Introduce 'The Girl and the Robot'

| 01/27/2025 @ 12:00AM

When the New York Times bestselling author of Witchlings, Claribel A. Ortega, teams up with the Emmy Award–winning screenwriter and director Oz Rodriguez, the result is an action-packed middle grade story of friendship, immigration, and empowerment that aims straight for the heart. The Girl and the Robot (Disney, March 25) is a humorous, contemporary tale destined to become an instant classic for this generation. (Sponsored)
We Didn’t Start the Fire: PW Talks with Anders Nilsen

by Chris Burkhalter | 01/24/2025 @ 07:00PM

The punishment of Prometheus casts a long shadow over present-day global turmoil in Tongues (Pantheon, Mar.), the first volume of a new graphic novel saga from the Ignatz Award–winning cartoonist.
“We’re All the Products of Housework”: PW Talks with Emily Callaci

by Vicki Borah Bloom | 01/24/2025 @ 07:00PM

Historian Callaci delves into the 1970s movement to demand fair pay for household labor in ‘Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor’ (Seal, Mar.).

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